577 Quotes About Congress



  • Author Congressman X
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    Forget public service. We all come here with good intentions, but as time passes, it becomes all about self-service and selfish survival.

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  • Author James Scott
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    After Congress passed SJ Res 34, we are no longer merely battling a cyber-kinetic war on all fronts, we are now in a state of perpetual cyber-kinetic-meta war, and there will be no end.

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  • Author Matt Latimer
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    Congress was not some flawless institution engineered to perfection by America’s Founders. It was only as effective as those who ran it.

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  • Author Markham Shaw Pyle
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    ... in 1912, although he, more even than other members of the Senate and the House, thought himself presidential timber (a delusion from which vanishingly few senators and representatives are wholly free when they gaze enraptured into their mirrors of a morning), Senator [William Alden] Smith wasn’t noted for much of anything.

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  • Author P.J. O'Rourke
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    …being specific is the essence of lawmaking and the whole difference between having a Congress and having a mom.

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  • Author Matthew Heines
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    Wisdom of the Ages: "Keystone Pipeline" Conveniently removes the need to speak figuratively about Congress stick a dagger into the heart of America.

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